There were heated exchanges as councillors debated calls for Blackpool to be part of a national inquiry into child grooming ...

The Government has come under fire for refusing to hold a national inquiry into the abuse of young girls by networks of men ...

A jury in the trial of eight men accused of historical child sexual exploitation in Rochdale has been discharged for legal ...

The grooming gangs scandal is back in the headlines after Elon Musk attacked Sir Keir Starmer and minister Jess Phillips for failing children. The tech billionaire has accused Sir Keir of being ...

Many victims were looking to the church for help and were really upset by its latest silence, say victim advocates ...

A group of eight men who were part of a West Yorkshire grooming gang in the late 1990s have been jailed. Three of the men - Ibrar Hussain, 47, and brothers Imtiaz Ahmed, 62, and Fayaz Ahmed, 45 - who ...

Senior police officers failed to protect girls from grooming gangs in Rotherham because they prioritised other crimes to hit ...

Sir Keir Starmer has responded to attacks from US billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk over the Labour government’s response to grooming gangs in the UK. Pressure had mounted on the prime ...

Susan Hall, who also chairs the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee, said the public needed ‘transparency’ on the ...

A briefing on the government’s response to a national grooming gangs inquiry and proposed policy commitments to tackle all ...

By 2010, a West Midlands Police report showed that authorities were aware that grooming gangs were approaching children at school gates. But as the report stated, “the predominant offender ...